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May 10, 2008 11:53

"It is unrealistic to expect the Pentagon to do anything other than to advance its own institutional interests in the media and elsewhere. Furthermore, it is not surprsing when retired career military officers present a perspective that coincides with that of their former cohort.

Two things are disturbing, however. One is the secret, unacknowledge coordination between the Pentagon and the purportedly independent spokespersons. That stinks. But what's worse is the failure of the media to come to terms with the way it was manipulated. Media organizations are supposed to be skeptical of authority, and evenhanded in their approach to public policy issues. This story illustrates how badly they failed to justify the public trust."

-Steven Aftergood, of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists

Italics mine. https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?id=257

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